13-345 Garand Picture of the Day - M8 Greyhound

[Mark in Rochester]

US infantrymen race to the Elbe river in an M8 Greyhound armored car; Germany - April 1945

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[browningautorifle]

And enough immediate firepower to sink your boat...

[Snafu]

Think I posted this one not long ago...............

[Mark in Rochester]

Think I posted this one not long ago...............

OK I owe you one then for the repeat

[browningautorifle]

And that young man is about to take a tree down for part of a roadblock...

[Mark in Rochester]

10 Lbs if TNT seems like a bit of overkill

[browningautorifle]

Nope, it's how we do it. When in doubt, overcharge. He's also supposed to notch the tree beforehand and use a wooden tamp on the outside of the charge. According to the book, there should be a kicker charge half way up to push it into the direction you want it to fall. I took the demolition instructor course, which included wooden, steel and concrete targets. Lots of other neat things too...great fun...

[13Echo]

It's a universal opinion of GIs that there are very few problems that won't respond to a healthy charge of high explosive and if a little is good a lot is better. It just plain works.

Jerry Liles

[WarPig1976]

Somebody I know, managed to procure a block of C4 minus a blasting cap during a demolition course. Said person and a few other brain surgeons decided AFTER a few Budweisers to have some fun.!! Heat was provided by lighting said C4 on fire and pressure exerted by throwing the flaming C4 against a wall. Well, this didn't work so dropping a large rock from a 10' high berm was tried to achieve detonation. This failed also..... Finally these Rhodes scholars gave up and chucked the said C4 into the woods... I think..

[Bob Seijas]

My friend Tisdale was in charge of demo for a local National Guard engineer outfit. When the town put out a request for bids to clear a local wooded lot, Tisdale proposed that his unit do it for nothing as a training exercise. The town loved the idea and accepted, so the unit spent two days blowing trees down as roadblocks as shown in the photo (but using C4 and det cord). Then they cleared a simulated LZ, chain sawed logs for bunkers, etc. Finally there was one HUGE stump left, an old oak tree about 4' in diameter. The whole town was out to watch from a safe distance and the local cops cordoned off the area. Tisdale bored his holes, placed the charges under the stump. Unfortunately, he read the chart wrong and used at least twice the amount of C4 called for, maybe more. At last all was ready, everybody backed off, he yelled "Fire in the hole!" and cranked the blasting machine.

KABOOM! The stump and a giant dirt ball weighing several tons soared 200 feet in the air and came down directly on top of a cop car, squashing it as flat as a pancake. That was the end of the training exercise